—Set Against the Night Sky of Ishigaki Island, 500 Drones and Fireworks Spectacularly Celebrate the New Year—
TOKYO, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kasumigaseki Capital Group's fav hospitality group Co., Ltd. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Hidekazu Ogata; hereinafter "FHG") held the special New Year event, "2026 New Year DRONE SHOW Origins" at Hotel seven x seven Ishigaki over three days from Thursday, January 1, to Saturday, January 3, 2026. The grand spectacle combined a light display featuring 500 drones with fireworks, offering hotel guests a New Year's-exclusive experience set against the night sky of Ishigaki Island.
The show was realized through a collaboration between VISIONOID, which produces drone performances for major domestic theme parks and renowned artists, and MARUGO, an award-winning fireworks company with a strong record at major fireworks competitions. Through meticulous synchronization of cutting-edge drone choreography and fireworks, the production delivered a powerful, immersive experience in which light and sound merged seamlessly, creating a dazzling moment befitting the opening of the New Year.
The program, "Origins," is an original production themed around "the quest for energy," symbolizing a "beginning" that connects the universe to the future. In the finale, fireworks were launched alongside a drone countdown display. The interplay of light and flame spreading across the night sky became a symbolic moment celebrating the New Year's arrival and was etched into the memories of many guests. Throughout the event period, numerous guests captured the show in photos and videos, generating strong interest and positive engagement across social media platforms.
FHG will continue to enhance the value of the guest experience at each of its properties by creating experiential content that highlights regional appeal and the natural environment.
Event Overview
Program Name: 2026 New Year DRONE SHOW "Origins"
Event Period: January 1 (Thu) – January 3 (Sat), 2026
Start Time: 21:00 each day (approx. 10 minutes per show)
During the event period, the show content was adjusted based on weather conditions, and on the final day, a combined drone and fireworks performance was presented.
Venue: seven x seven Ishigaki
Audience: Hotel guests
Official Website: https://sevenxseven.com/hotels/ishigaki/
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SINGAPORE, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital travel platform Agoda today announced the open-source release of its API Agent, a universal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to help developers connect MCP clients to GraphQL and REST services using natural language, without building separate integrations for each service.
Operating a large-scale travel platform requires coordinating hundreds of internal services, each with its own schema and interface. While MCP has made it easier to connect language models to external systems, Agoda teams have made it even simpler to manage dozens of services without individual MCP servers for each initiative with its new, open-source API Agent.
API Agent enables developers to configure a target service, ask questions in natural language, and receive structured results. The server automatically inspects schemas, generates the required queries, and executes them without custom integration code or manual mapping.
To support more advanced queries, API Agent includes SQL-based post-processing using DuckDB, enabling sorting, aggregation, and joins even when underlying services do not natively support these operations.
Idan Zalzberg, Chief Technology Officer at Agoda, said, "Many teams want to unlock internal tools for AI, but writing MCPs for each one is a major effort. API Agent takes a novel, zero-effort approach to that transformation, and to our knowledge, is the first of its kind. We've open-sourced it in the hope that others can benefit from the same value we've seen."
The API Agent is available now as open source at github.com/agoda-com/api-agent. API Agent joins Agoda's growing portfolio of open-source projects, including macOS virtualization kubelet, a tool for managing macOS infrastructure at scale.
SINGAPORE, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital travel platform Agoda today announced the open-source release of its API Agent, a universal Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed to help developers connect MCP clients to GraphQL and REST services using natural language, without building separate integrations for each service.
Operating a large-scale travel platform requires coordinating hundreds of internal services, each with its own schema and interface. While MCP has made it easier to connect language models to external systems, Agoda teams have made it even simpler to manage dozens of services without individual MCP servers for each initiative with its new, open-source API Agent.
API Agent enables developers to configure a target service, ask questions in natural language, and receive structured results. The server automatically inspects schemas, generates the required queries, and executes them without custom integration code or manual mapping.
To support more advanced queries, API Agent includes SQL-based post-processing using DuckDB, enabling sorting, aggregation, and joins even when underlying services do not natively support these operations.
Idan Zalzberg, Chief Technology Officer at Agoda, said, "Many teams want to unlock internal tools for AI, but writing MCPs for each one is a major effort. API Agent takes a novel, zero-effort approach to that transformation, and to our knowledge, is the first of its kind. We've open-sourced it in the hope that others can benefit from the same value we've seen."
The API Agent is available now as open source at github.com/agoda-com/api-agent. API Agent joins Agoda's growing portfolio of open-source projects, including macOS virtualization kubelet, a tool for managing macOS infrastructure at scale.
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
Agoda Launches Open-Source API Agent to Simplify MCP Server Integrations
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